NevaP

Here's my GeoTree. Everything on it except Signal was found in a cache.

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I'm not sure what you are asking. For a Delorme Challenge the cache owner only maintains the final physical cache that contains the log book which can be signed only by someone who has met the requirements. The caches found for the challenge are anybody's caches all over the state. For approval, caches must always meet standards for maintainence. If they are located out of the cachers normal range (which can vary a great deal depending on the person) then arrangements must be made for maintainence by a nearby person.

OK, dumb question from computer- challenged senior citizen, tired of counting cache finds on her fingers. I went there and collected it. Now where do I put it and how do I make it work? (I only know which button to push some of ttime and I still think it's all done by magic)

A Delorme challenge is a whole different thing. I'd think that'd be pretty wide open to whoever could get that critter! I just wish I had that kind of time and resources (of course a Delorme covering Texas would be pretty huge). Hmmm - maybe Delorme need their own icon! An Icon for Delorme challenges. I'll second that. I'd like to see one for every state although I'll do well to get my own state completed. The Texas Delorme atlas has only 65 map pages. Of course there *is* a bit of distance involved. I set up the Nebraska Delorme so that people can sign it twice. Once for a list that retroactively included any cache they have ever found or placed and again with only caches (different ones than the first list) found or place after the date the Nebraska Delorme was published.

I am very new to this, a friend of mine got me hiooked on this with out even taking me out. all he did was tell me about it and this site. I have bought a used unit on e-bay (still waiting for delivery). Can't wait to get5 out and try this, the wife says she is willing to give it a go as well. Does this mean that my friend got two of us adddicted? I have gotten a lot of good tips just from reading these forums. Thanks to all for the advice. (when all else fails play dead) Motto of the possum club. Is there any thing else besides caching that can produce addiction before you have actually done it?

I own The Nebraska Delorme Challenge cache and I may eventually log it myself, if I ever qualify, but not before a number of others have logged it first.

I definitely sense an addiction starting ! have fun.

Many of my travel bugs are cute things I've found in caches, that just seem to say "I want to be a TB" For example: This one and this one and this one. I'm not caching with kids and I usually do TNLN (other than my signature item -photo magnets) but I have been collecting from caches Christmas ornaments and things that can be used as Christmas ornaments and this year I will have a small GeoChristmasTree decorated with them. And every time I find one of those little mini-Furbys I've taken it. There are five of them sitting on the computer desk right now. They proabably will go on the GeoTree too. NevaP, trying to decide what to be when she grows up.

http://gsak.net/ GSAK is an excellent program that will sort out a data base of cache information in many ways. And from it you can print a table of basic cache information or condensed cache descriptions with or without logs. This greatly reduces the number of pages of paper you carry with you. It's best used with pocket queries of .gpx files. And as a pemium member you can also, once a week, get the newly implemented pocket query list of caches you have found. I'm semi-paperless. I carry a pocket PC with PGX sonar and Pocket Streets but I still print a cache grid and some condensed descritions of for the caches I am mostly likely to be looking for. I hate trying to make notes on the pocket PC so I use my printouts or a paper notebook. Old dogs can only learn so many new tricks. GSAK is free but it will start nagging for a $30 contribution after a month or so. It's worth a lot more than that, IMHO. I think there are some other similar programs but this is the only one I'm familar with.

Best micro containers? Listed by water resistance and durability, not by diabolical qualities, IMHO. Very good: Bison tubes: I don't think they leak at all if the lid is tightened properly Diabetic test stripe containers. These really are great. The lid is attached and fits tightly. OK to so-so, depending on where they are placed: Magnetic key holders. Altoid tins Breath strip tins film canisters All of these will leak and the metal ones will rust but if they are secured by magnets or Velcro in a protected placed they hold up well. I've found some that were placed in a plastic bag and then hidden. At least this made them very easy to find. Plastic pill bottles. I think most of them leak. Need to test beforehand. Again it depends on where it is being put. I'm not fond of micros but everytime I finally find one I get this urge to hide one in retaliation

I immediately wondered if any of them had ever done geocaching. From the heavily edited shots we saw several people seemed to just walk around but a couple of them were shown looking in crannies and under places where I would hide a six inch Idol. Maybe they will get a GPS in a reward challenge next week and a set of clues in Mayan like we have for This cache in Lincoln

A Delorme Challenge starts where ever want to start. Find a cache, any cache , located in the area shown on each map page. Send in your list when you have cached the whole state. See cache description for details. The Coords given are the location of the log book which cannot be signed until the cache list has been submitted and checked. Nebraska Delorme Challenge

Stay tuned. It's coming next week.

I have one in Florida - sitting in a cache in a Jacksonville cache which hasn't been visited since the bug arrived 8/21. Another one is in a travel bug cache in Corpus Christie, right on the waterfront, but that cache has been logged since Rita so I assume the bug is still OK. These two and several others have a goal of getting to the vicinity of the next Entomological Society of America meeting and they just got a time extension. The buggy people were due to gather in a week in Fort Lauderdale but the meeting has been postponed until mid December.

Strange. I have 22 travel bugs out there and in the three years I have been caching they have collectively visited 35 states plus the District of Columbia (and also eight countries other than the USA) and only TWO of them have ever been in Michigan. And each of those was only briefly in one cache and then left for another state. And I think Max B has only met one of them.

Help! When I try to download waypoints from GSAK to my Magellan 315 I get the following message: Error sending waypoints. MAGPROTO cannot open 'com1' for write. Error was 'Permission denied'. All I know about computers is which buttons to push (usually) I did know enough to go to sytem and device manager and check the com1 port. It says it's operating properly, it's enabled and it's set to the same baud rate (4800) as the GPS. What on earth is going on here?

No Angst here. Just got home from six days out west. While my husband, KP , judged a philetelic show in Spokane I got to spend Friday, Saturday and half of Sunday running around this beautiful city caching. Then I dragged KP over to CoeurD'Alene, Idaho where we cached some more on Sunday afternoon. We spent most of Monday in Farragut State Park on Lake Pend Oreille. Tuesday we made a swing into Northwest Montana before driving back to Spokane to catch an early plane home on Wednesday. The weather was perfect. I found 64 caches, regulars, multis, micros, virtuals, hard ones, easy ones.took eight travel bugs west and found good caches for all of them, found six travel bugs and a geocoin to bring back to Nebraska, met several other cachers, got LOTS of exercise, saw gorgeous scenry, only got lost briefly a few times, ate in good restaurants, drank good wines and beer and had a fine time all around. But I still haven't finished logging all those caches. NevaP

65/616 = 10.5% (no jeeps or coins included) 74/616 = 12% (jeeps and coins counted) but I know I got some of those bugs at events (can't remember how many) and I haven't included the events in the cache total so that throws off that number ---- OH well

I came in late and can't believe I took time to read this whole thread. I've been Georging for about as long as I've been caching and I used to trade WG bills in caches but after becoming aware of the WGers concern about this now I usually just log any I find in caches and stick them in my billfold to be spent. Those of us who do take time to mark and log every bill we spend really appreciate it when you non Georgers DO log any marked bill you happen to encounter anywhere. It doesn't take long to do that. It does not commit you to marking all your own spending money. It just gives one bill a recorded hit. And I'm wondering. Does a bill now get tagged as a geocached bill with the first mention of it being found or placed in a cache? Maybe I just won't tell when I find cached ones in the future. Anyway, as has been mentioned above. Follow the rules of both activites please.

Really, I look a lot like my avatar. NevaP

Yet Dad would not climb up Amber's Revenge! What a wimp! Oh wait.... we were wimps too.... But at least we have the "short people" excuse! But he did try to climb a tree once at this cache May 13, 2003 - my 100th cache.

Here's CarleenP's dad the first day I took him out caching way back in November 2002. This was in Florida and there were lots of little cypress knees sticking out of the mud under there. And he will still go caching (if the fish aren't biting) NevaP

Two of my 20 travel bugs have met international travel goals. Since I started caching in 2002 I've released two bugs each fall in the city hosting the annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America. Their goal is to get to cities hosting future entomology meetings, preferably about the time of the meeting. Three of the six ENTSOC bugs released are now missing. This one had great sucess (after a trip to and from the TB graveyard) getting close to an annual meeting in Ohio and then finding it's way to Brisbane Australia for an International Congress of Entomology where it was in a cache less than a quarter mile from the convention center at the time of the congress. It came home to the USA but now has not been heard from since Febuary and may soon join the missing. Another bug of mine had reaching London England as a goal and accomplished this in only eight months. Its goal is now to come home to Nebraska but it seems to be having a good time touring Europe. Travel bugs lead precarious lives so your scouts might want to release several and hope that at least one reaches the goal. I always attach my own laminated tags with the bug's goal and Tb logging instructions. NevaP